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london

(21,433 sq. km)

And London is only so big because the metropolitan area is included. The city of London:

(1.8 sq. km)

My neighborhood, Bushwick, just one neighborhood in Brooklyn, which is just one of five boroughs of New York City, is three times the size of the city of London:

a. the populations of NY and London in terms of the city itself (and not counting the Greater NY/London areas - is about the same, 8 million ish).

b. Due to the nature of its geography - i.e. the island/river thing - restricting outward spread and forcing the city upwards - NY crams these 8 million into a much more concentrated space. London sprawls.

c.You do actually see a very diverse and nuanced representation of NY on screen; some movies obvious take a ‘the Statue Of Liberty and the Empire State Building and Central Park are all basically within 5 minutes walk of each other and also wherever you’re trying to go, the bridge you cross is the Brooklyn because that’s the one people recognise’ approach. But I’m thinking of, like, Roland Emerich. More commonly movies and other media tend to specify what area of NY we’re dealing with. We know that Dardevil operates in Hell’s Kitchen, that business- and lawyer- based shows happen in midtown and Manhattan (or Toronto pretending top be Manhattan), that Steve Roger is just a kid from, specifically, Brooklyn.

d. Movies set in London made by Americans are meanwhile incredibly vague and inaccurate, with no understanding of how many areas - often previously independent villages - there are, what they are like, and how they relate geographically.

e. I don’t understand how this managed to become about bloody America other than doesn’t everything

f. Spending 14 hours travelling across upstate NY in a train has given me a newfound respect for just how vast that country is

g. But it has zero to do with the idea that London isn’t terribly well researched or represented in mainstream cinema

This has always been bothering me about Sailor Moon (and other manga). Why can’t they not ruin otherwise badass and empowering characters with this kind of crap?

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The depiction of ninjas as dressed all in black comes from traditional Japanese theatre.  Actual historical ninjas didn’t dress in black because it’s conspicuous as hell in the daytime and even at night in the dark a person dressed in solid black tends to stand out; dark grey or blue is better for hiding in shadows.  Usually they just wore ordinary, like, people clothes which are far better for blending into your surroundings in than a specialised professional costume.

BUT YOU KNOW WHO DID DRESS ALL IN BLACK LIKE THAT

the stage crew in a theatre

and it was a generally accepted convention that the black-clad stagehands were invisible, so they could be on stage at the same time as the actors and move things around and the audience would just mentally CG them out

but then one day because a director was a GENIUS, during an otherwise normal performance of a play, suddenly a stagehand stepped forward, assassinated one of the main characters and then melted back into the background

THEY WERE A NINJA

AND THE AUDIENCE LOST THEIR MINDS BECAUSE IT WAS AMAZING

and eventually it lost its mind-blow value because after a while everyone had seen a play like that, so although the “stagehands wear black and are invisible” convention continued, the new “ninjas wear black and are invisible until they choose to strike” convention became established, and from then on fictional ninjas have just worn black because it looks so cool.

he annoyed the fuck out of krennic by cc-ing him in like a million emails to death star r&d. 

so i know we’re behind schedule here but we found this structural flaw and wanted to let you guys know about it, says galen.

and r&d is like okay so how do we fix it? 

and galen is like well we could start over? 

and r&d is like no that’ll take too long. 

and galen promises to think about it and writes to them later all hey how about we make some additional investments and get better materials?

and r&d is like no that’s too expensive. 

and galen is like weeeell…. 

and r&d is like well what?

and galen goes well there’s something we can do but you’re not gonna like it.

and r&d is like okay what is it. 

and galen is like are you sure you want to hear it?

yes, goes r&d. 

like, really really super sure? 

yes, goes r&d.

okay so the problem is radiation buildup, says galen. have i mentioned the problem is radiation buildup?

30 emails ago, r&d says.

right, so. says galen. we could build this exhaust port but it’s not going to get rid of all the radiation all the time, so if you’re having some stormtroopers around they might be exposed to it. i can look into some other options to reduce–

at which point krennic, who’s been cc’d in all of this, goes JUST PUT THE FUCKING EXHAUST PORT IN AND GET IT OVER WITH FUCK THOSE STORMTROOPERS ALL THESE EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS ARE DRIVING ME NUTS

Blood is thicker than water The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.